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haughty latch
Hi there!
sly sand
hello!
haughty latch
To put it succinctly, your understanding is correct. You as a platform might transfer funds to your connected account's balance, and if you are using manual payouts you might directly create Payouts on their account, but those are two separate things, as you've intuited.
sly sand
Is there an embedded component that we can use to create transfers, or is that something we'll have to handle on the API side?
haughty latch
Embedded components are generally for the connected accounts to interact with and the creation of Transfers is handled by the platform. This would be something like the connected account requesting a Transfer, I think. I doubt it, but let me look
sly sand
That makes sense, I think we had a misconception of what the embedded components are for
for clarity, here's what we're trying to build:
we want an internal admin page where a user can look at a list of connected accounts and pay them the commissions we owe them (this would be a transfer it sounds like)
haughty latch
Are you collecting payments on Stripe or just planning to fund your account balance and then use Connect to move money to your clients?
sly sand
I think for the time being we're just planning on funding our account and then moving money to the connected accounts
we don't really collect payments at all, we invoice our vendors and then pass that money on as commissions minus a fee to our platform
haughty latch
Yeah, Embedded Components are meant to be used to create a dashboard for the connected accounts - they're primarily for doing things that the Stripe dashboard does, but it allows an amount of whitelabeling / customization
sly sand
gotcha that makes total sense and I think is where our confusion was arising
so for instance we have an embedded component on the account page that allows users to input their info/bank account information
haughty latch
Yeah, I think you just want to build a dashboard that calls an API that then calls Stripe's APIs
sly sand
that seems like the correct usage of an embedded component
haughty latch
Exactly
sly sand
perfect so what we should build is a dashboard that calls an internal API with the relevant details, and then our internal API logic can call the Stripe API to create a transfer
is it possible to create transfers through our own stripe dashboard?
or do we have to do it via API?